Boris Groys

Boris Groys
Born	19 March 1947 Berlin, Germany
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental
Main interests	Political philosophy, religion, ethics, art theory
Influences Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Solovyov, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Kojève, Lacan, Derrida

Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and an internationally acclaimed Professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California and the Courtauld Institute of Art London.

Groys attended high school in Leningrad (known since 1991 as St. Petersburg). From 1965–1971 he studied mathematical logic at the University of Leningrad, subsequently working as a research fellow at various scientific institutes in Leningrad. From 1976-1981 he served as a research fellow at the Institute of Structural and Applied Linguistics at the University of Moscow. In 1981 he emigrated from the USSR to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he pursued various scholarships. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Münster, Germany.